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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Walker's Bush Doctrine, and the Creation of ISIS.

When I heard Scott Walker pushing the old George W. Bush
preemptive war policy, known as the Bush Doctrine, I was surprised no one seemed
surprised. Well, the media is catching up, but only as it relates to those odd comments made by Jeb Bush, who said he'd invade Iraq all over again.

So even after all the chest pounding that resulted in the Iraq debacle (N. Korea too), Republicans are still hoping their policy of preemptive threats will work this next time.

Here's Walker's unmistakable war mongering rant of preemption. Walker promises to "TELL" us "I'm not going to wait, I'm going to take the fight to them, before they bring the fight to us." Who needs congress, who needs a debate? This is the Bush Doctrine:

The problem is never that some
situations we confront offer no good options, or that our decisions can
backfire, or that there are places where America may not be able to set things
right to the benefit of all. The problem is always weakness, and strength is
always the solution ... neither Walker nor his opponents seem to have learned much
from the experience, whether we’re asking about concocting
phony intelligence to sell a war you've already decided you want,
believing that all the “bad guys” in the world must be in cahoots, seeing every
foreign policy question in black and white, or putting blind faith in the idea
that “strength” is all you need to succeed.The George W. Bush years provided an emphatic refutation of
the ideas underlying Republican foreign policy, but few in the party seem to
have gotten the message.

At the same time, Jeb Bush is getting heat for blaming Obama for the rise of ISIS:

Ivy Ziedrich, 19, a student at the University of Nevada,
approached Jeb Bush to question him about comments he had made … argu(ing) that
the Obama administration's weak foreign policy was responsible for the rise of
the terrorist group, also known as ISIS, in the Middle East. Ziedrich countered that Obama wasn't to blame -- and that it
was his predecessor's decision to disband the Iraqi army that made the group's
formation possible. "Your brother created ISIS," she told Bush.

Specific decisions made by the Bush administration also led
to the rise of ISIS. Most notably, the administration engaged in a widespread
and controversial policy known as debaathification, which made most people,
even low-level bureaucrats, who had been associated with the former regime,
ineligible for government employment in the new era. The German magazine Der Spiegel in April published a
trove of documents that once belonged to the mastermind of ISIS, Haji Bakr, who
created the infrastructure of the Islamic State.

For fun, here's a short movie "preview" parody of the neocon propagandist dream:

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